pieghevole

The dark web (Room 1)
Giulia Cusumano 1,2,3 / Rosa Ingiulla 1 , Roberta Desiderio 1 , Agnese Alberio 1,3
1
Dipartimento di Scienze Umanistiche, Università degli Studi di Catania, Catania, Italia;
2
Associazione Antiusura Antiracket Obiettivo Legalità, Catania, Italia;
3
AssociazioneCODICI – Centro per i diritti del cittadino – Sicilia, Palermo, Italia
BULLYING AND CYBERBULLYING IN SICILIAN ADOLESCENTS
Cyberbullying is today an extensive phenomenon especially prevalent among
adolescents and preadolescents, encouraged by the widespread use of new
technologies and the communication revolution due to chat, social networks
and file sharing. The consequences for victims must not be undervalued because
the impact of this kind of persecutory violence, perpetrated in a context
of a space physically and temporarily non limited, is considerable: from the
analysis of research conducted in literature, nationally and internationally, we
find, for example, high percentages of suicide ideation by cyberbullied youth.
After a review and a study of the main national and international tests and
questionnaires on bullying and cyberbullying, examined evaluating their
construction and validity, in the present study we propose an instrument that
– on the basis of past scientific experience about this phenomenon – has the
purpose of finding some quantitative data on the diffusion and influence of
cyberbullying; a further aim of the study is the analysis of the different behavior
acted out in the victimization context.
We observed bully and cyberbully behavior: attitudes that can easily change
into acts of sexting or sextortion favored by the ease of sharing files, and that
are often acted out in a less overt way (because of the opportunity offered by
Internet and technology) than traditional bullying. Our data shows furthermore
how the fact of belonging to certain social classes does not change the
quality of bullying and cyberbullying behaviors.
PARALLEL SESSION / The clinical field (2)
66